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]]>2006-03-11T02:35:18+02:00http://www.sanparks.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7266&p=128248#p128248The 'grasshopper' is actually a winged predatory katydid! In the same group as bush crickets. Described as being very large (the body is about 3 inches) and it is a 'voracious predator' of other large insects - and can bite severely!

The other is one of the armoured ground crickets - also called corn cricket. About 10 years ago there was one of those amazing explosions in populations that many species occasionally exhibit. They were literally everywhere, north of the Olifants. Driving on many stretches of road was like driving on cobble streets!

The moth is the common mopane moth - common but huge! And of course completely harmless.